Four England players have been named in Uefa's all-star squad of Euro 2004 but Greece captain Theo Zagorakis was voted player of the tournament.

Wayne Rooney, Frank Lampard, Ashley Cole and Sol Campbell were today chosen by Uefa's technical studies group with only surprise champions Greece had more players in the 23-man squad.

Gerard Houllier, a member of Uefa's technical committee, said Zagorakis deserved his award for his regularly impressive performances.

"We think that he was consistently performing throughout the competition and he won the man-of-the-match award himself in the first and last games of the tournament," he said.

On Rooney, Houllier said: "He was a revelation, a very young promising player", while he described Cole as having a "fantastic tournament".

Uefa technical director Andy Roxburgh called Campbell "a colossus" while Lampard's three goals in midfield "impressed us all - he's one of the new boys on the block".

Other Premiership players who also made the squad were Liverpool's Milan Baros, the tournament's leading scorer with five goals for the Czech Republic, Manchester United's Portuguese winger Cristiano Ronaldo and Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy, Aston Villa's Swedish central defender Olof Mellberg and Chelsea's new goalkeeper Peter Cech of the Czech Republic.

Former Celtic striker Henrik Larsson also made it into the all-star squad thanks to his four goals for Sweden.

Houllier, who dropped Baros from the Liverpool first team last season soon after he returned from a broken ankle, said the Czech star had benefited from a lack of action last season.

He said: "Milan was very unlucky to get injured with a broken ankle last season and that's probably helped as he did not come back until March and it looks as if it made him more fresh than the others.

"He's had his best form in this tournament. He's a very unexpected type of centre-forward, he likes to run at defenders, he's strong and powerful with good pace. He's not the finished article but I'm sure he will become greater.

"Just look at his goals record for the national team - he has scored nearly 20 in less than 30 caps."